Video chat with astronomer Korey Haynes at the Public Observatory. Ask questions about how to detect water on planets around other stars, or anything else that interests you. Korey Haynes is a Ph.D. student at George Mason University and works at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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NASA scientists found faint signatures of water in the atmospheres of five distant planets orbiting three different stars. All five planets appear to be hazy. This illustration shows a star's light illuminating the atmosphere of a planet.